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Update on Current Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) Renewal Issue

Dear Sellers, We are currently experiencing a technical data processing delay that has temporarily impacted the timely processing of some Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) renewals, affecting the visibility of certain seller listings and listing count on Act...

Collectibles that are not in "Collectible" condition

Curious as to other people who source collectibles and break down collections, what your complaints are about the merchandise you are prepping for listing, and the condition it's in. As an example, today I was photographing some French stationary fro...

LISTINGS NOT SHOWING UP/GOING ON AT ALL

For approx. the past 2 weeks a lot of my listings either don't show up in my selling, even though it says 'your listing is now live' once I've inputted everything. As well, sometimes they'll so up days upon days later! When querying seller's other it...

honest feedback

This has bothered me for awhile. I have a modest hobby business in fishing items, have faithfully left buyer feedback for years, but the options available to me as a seller have been whittled away until now the ONLY OPTION AVAILABLE from eBay is to l...

Items not appearing in Browse - How are your sales?

Is anyone else not having their items appear in regular browsing? My page views have tanked and sales are down 40% from a month back, over 7 days they are off by 80%+ Has anyone contacted eBay on related issues? I dont see any mention of these proble...

Selling items in the US and UK with a UK eBay account?

I live in London and have been selling a few things on eBay as a personal seller (not a business). I’ll be in the US visiting my parents and would like to help them sell some items from their house clear out. I also have some items currently listed i...

Order Cancellations Ramping Up? Possible solution

I have been noticing the number of buyers who have ALREADY PAID for an order and then later requesting to cancel ramping up, 3 so far this weekend...1 Ebay policy used to state it is a binding contract.2 The reason option does not always reflect the ...

Too much emphasis on item specifics and not enough emphasis on categories

Dozens of sub categories have been eliminated over the past 10 years making it much harder to browse while putting a huge amount of unnecessary and confusing item specifics on each item.

My payment hold due to MC999, Need Help

(Received from ebay)We wanted to let you know that you have been temporarily restricted from selling and buying on eBay because of concerns about your seller account. This must be frustrating, but measures like these help keep our marketplace safe fo...

Resolved! Auto-pay not working with winning High Bidders

How long does it take for Auto pay to kick in? I've been waiting one hour for payment. A customer who's order I had to cancel because of non-payment wrote me that she had auto-pay on so it should have been paid.Should l be sending these customers inv...

Needing heip after feeling ignored because the buyer is always right.

I have a few questions about doing exactly what the buyer wants to avoid negative feedback. A buyer purchased two tablets from me listed as open and new. Before sending them out I made sure both turned on and both had everything that was included. Al...

Return payment to buyer without shipping item

Hello, I'm confused how this all works. I had something up for sale and totally forgot about it because I've been busy with work and the pandemic in general. Someone had ordered something from me, but I had already sold the item elsewhere.However, be...

Mandated international shipping = bye-bye ebay

I never sell internationally because it's too easy for someone to claim that the item never arrived (if the item is expensive, tracking can be purchased, but that doesn't work for cheap items). But now ebay is mandating that all sales are internation...

If an item sells in 2023 but the buyer doesn't pay till 2024, what year will those sales be counted?

Hello, as the subject line states, if I sell an item on the last few days of 2023 and the buyer does not pay till 2024, what year will those sales be counted under? I'm trying to maximize the IRS postponement of the 20k line, as I'm plenty of other s...

Got an international offer but I indicated no international?

I specifically listed a few of my items with no international but a buyer sent me an offer. When I try to look at my shipping policy it just says I wasn't offering to ship it my own way but Ebay will still ship it themselves. huh? Is Ebay going to pa...

My latest experience with a payment dispute

This is rather quirky one that hasn’t happened to me until now. Maybe it’s a caused by the usual online holiday shopper confusion.I got a payment dispute on Friday night with the reason “I didn’t receive my item.” The eBay email and the details of th...